Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open

[Alexander Graf]

On 11.12.2009, at 18:02, Yaniv Kamay wrote:

> 
> ----- "Anthony Liguori" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Jun Koi wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 11.12.2009, at 14:45, Yaniv Kamay wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Spice project is now open, for more information visit
>> http://spice-space.org,
>>>>> due to a server relocation the site will be down during this
>> weekend.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Spice ship patched QEMU based on fairly old KVM snapshot as a
>> reference
>>>>> implementation. The Spice team plane to push all the relevant bits
>> into
>>>>> QEMU upstream.
>>>>> 
>>>> What's the roadmap here? It'd be a shame to have yet another fork
>> of qemu.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Knowing that this is a Redhat project, I am sure that will not
>> happen.
>>> 
>> 
>> It already has.  It's not a git tree with staged patches.  It's a 
>> tarball release of a really old version of kvm-userspace that's called
>> 
>> 'vdesktop'.
> 
> 
> This guy is evil and he is motivate by personal agenda. I hope you all will
> wakeup.

While I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here, let me stress 
one thing:

I really think we're in dire need of better remote VM viewing interfaces. I 
personally don't care how they are achieved. Whether we're using spice, vmware 
drivers or port the vbox drivers to qemu doesn't really make to much of a 
difference to me. I just want to see video playback and 3D working.

That said, I believe spice has very promising parts and it would be a shame not 
to have you guys as part of the qemu community. Open Source people tend to be 
quite open at times, especially in expressing their beliefs. Most of the time 
they don't match with one's own :-).

So expect some heavy review, questioning of ways you do things and proposals on 
how to make things different. It might sound odd at first, but in the end it 
really benefits the code. Not developing code separately and "pushing" it to a 
project is part of that. Code gets reviewed, rejected, changed all the time.

I heartly welcome you to the open source world!

Alex